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NORFLEET
211
All that stood between us and the waiting car was
the law.
"Look here! You can't take that man out of this
institution without paying his bill!" one of the officers
declared, stretching forth his hand for Furey. I reached
out my right and shook his hand heartily.
"Good morning, officer!" I said pleasantly. "There
is no bill for us to pay. The Society came and got
him of its own accord. I have no money to pay it and
have a pressing engagement with the train leaving for
Fort Worth. See you again," I promised.
They stood and watched us shove Furey into the
car and drive off without arguing the matter further.
The trip from there into Fort WVorth was uneventful.
That night Furey was delivered at the Tarrant
County jail into the keeping of Sheriff Sterling Clark,
where we knew that the devil and all of his assistants
could not get him out.
We had after fourteen months of ceaseless searching
at last found our man and had promptly fulfilled the
requirements of the requisition warrant, issued by the
Governor of Florida five days before, to deliver the body
of J. B. Stetson, alias Joe Furey, inside the jail door of
Tarrant County, Texas.
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Norfleet, J. Frank, 1864-. Norfleet: the actual experiences of a Texas rancher's 30,000-mile transcontinental chase after five confidence men., book, 1924; Ft. Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5864/m1/229/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .